Posts tagged Florida
Foreclosure mill head faces Florida Bar discipline
0by Kim Miller
The owner of the Fort Lauderdale-based Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson has agreed to plead guilty to offenses found during a Florida Bar investigation in what is believed to be the first disciplinary action taken by the regulatory More >
Mortgage Delinquency Spikes in TransUnion Q4 Report
0TransUnion is reporting that serious mortgage delinquencies rose during the fourth quarter of 2011 for only the second time since the end of 2009. The rate increased 13 basis points from 5.88 percent in the More >
Mitt Romney to Lenders: Take the Loss and Help People Recover, To Government: Get out of the Way
0Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney spent nearly an hour talking to struggling home and business More >
New REO Inventory in 2011 = 804,423 Homes, 1.9 million properties with a foreclosure filing
0RealtyTrac’s year-end report released Thursday shows foreclosure filings – including default, auction, and bank repossession notices – were reported on 1,887,777 U.S. properties in 2011. Of that total, 804,423 homes were taken back More >
Shadow inventory estimates for the US may have been dramatically underestimated
0By Michael Olenick, founder and CEO of Legalprise, and creator of FindtheFraud, a crowd sourced foreclosure document review system (still in alpha). You can follow him More >
Foreclosure makes people sick
0The threat of losing your home is stressful enough to make you ill, it stands to reason. Now two economists have measured just how unhealthy the foreclosure crisis has been in More >
Homeowner Groups Sue to Force Foreclosures
1Members of the Vintage East Condominium Association in Miami Beach got tired of waiting for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to foreclose on unit 9, so they sued the bank in February to take control of the property.
In June, more than four years after the More >
Mortgage Fraud Up 44% in First Quarter: Report
0The first three months of 2011 saw a 44 percent increase in the volume of mortgage fraud case activity, according to industry data released this week. The cases reported represent fraud on an estimated $1.2 More >
